I can get a week's worth of groceries in Aldis for the cost of a day's worth at Whole Foods, plus I don't have to be subjected to the sight of the beautiful people swanning their way down the aisles. It's a win win.

Rushing Waters Fisheries is obviously a Koch Brother's front. They have rules which they expect you follow if you are going to use their property. They probably get really upset if you decide to sleep there overnight and stick signs on the rails of the dock.

I will amend my lameness comment to the following: a trout farm is a great place to teach a kid how to use a fly rod. An expensive place but generally one with plenty of room for back casts and filled with hungry and stupid fish that will take corn colored floating flies or popping bugs. The fish do not like being caught and even though they are not wild trout they will put up a brief fight before they wallow. You have to pay for the fish caught and cannot practice the hallowed catch and release of a true trout fisherman, but a kid can learn the feel of a fish on the line and can learn to play the fish by reel or by hand. So they are not all bad. They eat each other's shit but that is a matter between them and Whole Foods.

I often see children/young adults with physical disabilities and/or in wheelchairs at the trout farm. School buses or buses for disabled will be parked out side the gate. It's a good thing for a lot of people. If you have a fishing license with trout stamp, you don't have to walk very far from the trout farm to fish for them.

Well, if you baked some trout and sent it in your child's lunch to this Chicago school, it wouldn't be allowed. They have banned home-made lunches because they are concerned about the students' health. Oh, and yeah, because parents are stupid.

Steelhead rainbows caught just in bright from the ocean are the second best salmonoid fish in the world (the best are spring chinook bright and just in from the ocean).

My newphew is going to be on VS TV soon, on an episode of steelhead fishing in Idaho. He guides out of Bozeman, and the kid is an absolute machine. He puts me to shame fly fishing, and I taught the little fucker how to fish! Even bead fishing with a bobber is challenging as hell in current. If anyone ever gets a chance to fly fish in MT, do it, there is nothing in this world quite like it.

You need some artesian well fresh water for your freshwater fish. I know what you mean, but it was not true of this fish. And I'm very standoffish about fish. I have an aversion, and I have to force myself to try it. But these were completely delicate.

Alright, well, while all you Euell Gibbonsy purists are out stalking your wild asparagus and brewing your own beer made with the barley you grew and harvested last fall to go with your wild fish fresh caught by you with your own two pure hands in your mountain-closer-to-God stream, I'll just finish my muddy Powerbar and get back to my boring lame work of reinventing the wheel for the umpteenth time.

Farm-raised trout freshly released into lakes and streams here in Colorado taste like mud, too. However, those that spawn and live in some of our lakes eat freshwater shrimp, and taste more like fresh salmon than mud. If they're white on the inside, they taste like mud. If they're pink, they taste like salmon. I know where to fish to get the pink ones.

Michaels amendment is well taken. This is right up my nephew's alley, he would love it, and it would be very enjoyable to spend time with him and have a nice meal etc. In the lovely outdoors.I can't mock it in the least, down with Meade.NY always gets to fish on April 1, while CT has to wait for third Sat. in April and now they are wacking us for fresh and salt licensing, it never ends.